Mr. president, delegates,
Since the beginning of civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the only of world wars But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the onto his bride Then shall the children know the true expression of one love Then mother earth shall in peace. Forever the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh the innocent going up in vapors And propaganda spreading inna the Sunday not even superman coulda save you with him cause Red-a a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem with razors And now the clock a strike war, be amazed 'cause dem churches tryin' to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh draw mi out the world government inna falling out Only few men crawling out Run him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead! Medic haffi him out And give him two tranquilizer fi him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear the shout last week Him mistress a new shoes can't get no news and lately she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the dem bawling out hard not to let it all come out Well it's not safe to go walk A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to house She start to arouse she want a spouse She start go out, beat a darker stout, guns come out! Working funds run out Keep a show week and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas tank run out, bombo clatt! The scotch tape just run out, run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi have a pound round a back deh a sun out Nah come out! 'Til the bun out, Nah come out! 'Til the bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to wall Blazin' a burnin' ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't wear curl, in war No and pearl, in war Can't weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war wi blood up yuh shirt, in war Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go your sperms, in war Stamina preserve, in war Fire burn, in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for If you do what other men have done What other nations have done, what races have done Then you shall die.
See it deh the innocent going up in vapors And propaganda spreading the Sunday papers not even superman save you with him cape cause judgement a blaze, blaze ya And a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore parents enough Dem blood sweat and tears run syrup Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's Kingston lighting up For the new generation rising up, of youths now a weh dem sighting up And through dem biding up, Searching for the sign and the is us, Searching for the truth all you is us, Searching for the troops still is us, The almighty we recruit and we come the root We build like building boot Weh just can't done, design me tuff If a the fight for freedom me up Cause you tell-lie-vision blind me up and police dem wising up, realizing they're no more right than us Realizing there's no use us Realizing their their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek nor smiling up Cause the word temper boiling up, And who alling the shots and nah bust Controlling the of the young, bring down
famine, no rain nah fall from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the bawl, institute of the church in war and researching war Practice and war Teaching and dem war and urging war Always keep in war Cause man jump out a swerving car Now bees and in war And the freaks and in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. You of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do what other men have What other nations have done, what other races have Then you shall die.